Thursday. Image The Namhu Agricultural Complex was burned by fires, in Andong City, South Korea

CHENGDU, July 29( Xinhua)--China beat Japan in straight sets here on Saturday in their men's volleyball opener of the Chengdu Universiade. Wang Dongchen notched a team-high 14 points, Zhang Guanhua added 12 while Peng Shikun and Deng Xinpeng had 11 apiece as the Chinese men claimed the 35-33, 25-19 and 25-23 victory in pool C." The first set was really close and we just held on for the victory," said Deng.... " We don't want to make our home fans disappointed." China reaped 14 points from block

CHENGDU, July 29( Xinhua)--China beat Japan in straight sets here on Saturday in their men's volleyball opener of the Chengdu Universiade. Wang Dongchen notched a team-high 14 points, Zhang Guanhua added 12 while Peng Shikun and Deng Xinpeng had 11 apiece as the Chinese men claimed the 35-33, 25-19 and 25-23 victory in pool C." The first set was really close and we just held on for the victory," said Deng.... " We don't want to make our home fans disappointed." China reaped 14 points from block

It is the highest number of deaths since the Korea Forest Service started records for wildfires in 1987. Advertisements Video Player is loading.... “ We can’t say that it’s only due to climate change, but climate change is directly[ and] indirectly affecting the changes we are experiencing now.... Our forests are essentially covered in oil-soaked paper, creating an environment where wildfires can spread at an alarming speed, ” he told AFP. Were South Korea to have cultivated more deciduous tre

SEOUL-If you meet a South Korean, there’s a 45 per cent chance that their surname is either Kim, Lee or Park.... And there is an even higher probability – some say nearly 90 per cent – that their surname originates from a bogus family tree. According to the latest census data from Statistics Korea, these three surnames account for nearly half the population, which is over 20 million people.... Kim in Seoul ”, to describe an impossible task – something akin to finding a needle in a haystack. Ko

Liu Pei’en held the small wooden box that contained his father’s remains.... He said officials in the central Chinese city of Wuhan had insisted on accompanying him to the funeral home and were waiting anxiously nearby.... Later, they followed him to the cemetery where they watched him bury his father, he said....